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Liburu Berriak Novedades Liburu berriak Novedades ko urria 2008 Octubre 2008 1 2008ko Urria ... LIBURU BERRIAK NOVEDADES ... Octubre 2008 FIKZIOA – Ficción Eleberri historikoa / Novela histórica La Biblia del diablo / Richard Dübell Bohemia, 1572. En un convento medio derruido, Andrej, un niño de ocho años, se convierte en testigo de un terrible baño de sangre: diez personas, entre ellas sus propios padres, son brutalmente asesinadas por un monje enloquecido. En medio de la agonía, una mujer da a luz una niña que el prior ordena asesinar para evitar que nadie se entere de lo acaecido en aquel remoto convento. Pero Andrej logra escapar llevándose consigo uno de los secretos mejor guardados de la Iglesia y que la comunidad de monjes quiere salvaguardar a cualquier precio... • El médico fiel / Antonio Villanueva Edo • El caballero de Alcántara / Jesus Sanchez adalid • Astur / Isabel San Sebastián Eleberri romantikoa / Novela romántica • Su alteza real / Danielle Steel • Amor inmortal / Kathryn Smith • La llave / Lynsay Sands • Luz de luna / Melody Thomas Eleberri poliziakoa / Novela policiaca-intriga • •• El centésimo hombre / Jack Kerley Unos extraños y enigmáticos mensajes encontrados en un par de cadáveres en Mobile, Alabama, lanzan al joven detective Carson Ryder y al veterano policía Harry Nautilus a la desesperada búsqueda de un misterioso asesino. Cuando el número de víctimas aumenta de modo alarmante, Ryder no tiene más remedio que revolver en el terrorífico pasado de su familia. • Casi muerto / Peter James 2 Fantasiazko eleberria / Novela fantástica • Crónicas de Belgarath / David Eddings El jardín dorado / Gustavo Martín Garzo Jardines que son cárceles, palacios donde resuena la voz de un animal herido, muñecos refinados que tienen corazón de hombre, mujeres que siguen el rastro de su propio deseo en una isla encantada, y un monstruo triste encerrado en un laberinto que será su perdición... Un mundo don de la locura dialoga con el ingenio y nos encandila con su imaginación y talento Zientzia-Fikzioko Eleberria / Novela de Ciencia Ficción El triunfo de la Fundación / David Brin Un anciano Hari Seldon empieza a descubrir que tal vez ni la Primera Fundación ni la Segunda pueden ser la solución definitiva ante la amenaza del Caos y el grave peligro que se cierne sobre la civilización humana. Seldon se embarca en su última aventura, un viaje en busca de los factores que le sirvan para completar su amplio conocimiento del futuro. El pozo de las tramas perdidas / Jasper Fforde En el mundo de Thursday Next, la literatura es casi como una religión. Se ha creado una brigada especial que se ocupa de asuntos tan esenciales como perseguir los plagios, descubrir al verdadero autor de las obras de Shakespeare o detener a los vendedores de falsos manuscritos. Komikiak – Comics • Emily the Strange: perdida, siniestra y aburrida. 1 / creada por Rob Reger • Akira / Katsuhiro Otomo (6. vol.) • Pequeños eclipses / Fane & Jim • Los combates cotidianos. 3, Lo que de verdad cuenta / Manu Larcenet • El sacrificio / Rosinski • Examen sorpresa / Pica & Erroc • Las mujeres y los niños primero / Dupuy, Berberian • El lama blanco / Jodorowsky, Bess 3 Las lágrimas de Isis / guión y dibujo, Crisse La vida de Ishanti gira alrededor de su preparación para ser una bailarina sagrada del templo de Isis y sobrellevar los desprecios del resto de las aspirantes –niñas de familias influyentes que no soportan la presencia de una plebeya como Ishanti en aquel lugar. • Top 10 / guión, Alan Moore • Los malos sueños ; La ciudad de las aguas movedizas ; El embajador de las sombras / Mézières, Christin • La bestia / guión de Fabien Vehlmann • Lenore. 3 / escrito y dibujado por Roman Dirge Albion / trama Alan Moore; guión Leah Moore y John Reppion La serie apunta a revivir personajes de clásicos británicos como Captain Hurricane, Robot Archie, The Steel Claw y The Spider (así también como personajes menores, tales como Fishboy y Faceache), todos con apariciones relativas a las décadas del 60' y el 70', publicadas por IPC Media. • Poder (Rising stars; 2) / J. Michael Straczynski • El arma de los dioses (Redhand; 2) / guión Kurt Busiek ; dibujo y coloreado Mario Alberti • Las cosechas de acero (Los centinelas; 1) / Xabier Dorison; Enrique Breccia • La versión irlandesa (XII) / Van Hamme; Giraud • Cruel Thing. 1 / guión, Lean ; dibujo, Luciano Vecchio • La odisea / guión, Pérez Navarro ; dibujo, Martín Saurí Beste batzuk – Otras • Un arco iris en la noche / Dominique Lapierre No hay sexo en Ramallah / Suad Amiry En el restaurante Darna, el local de moda en Ramall se reúne periódicamente un grupo de amigas. Todas tienen dos problemas: la menopausia y su vinculación, por nacimiento o elección, con Palestina. En torno a la mesa se entrecruzan las historias de Ola, Jamilleh, Lena, Fadia, Rana, Maya y otras amigas: cada una habla de sí misma con sinceridad y emoción, con el trasfondo de las tormentosas vicisitudes políticas y sociales de Oriente Próximo. • Mal de escuela / Daniel Pennac 4 • Motín en la Bounty / John Boyne • El asesino de la carretera / James Ellroy After dark / Haruki Murakami Cerca ya de medianoche, en esas horas en que todo se vuelve dolorosamente nítido o angustiosamente desdibujado, Mari, sentada sola a la mesa de un bar-restaurante, se toma un café mientras lee. La interrumpe un joven músico, Takahashi, al que Mari ha visto una única vez. • La ley de la asistenta / Saira Rao • Adverbios (relatos cortos) / Daniel Handler • Canto rodado / Maria Barbal • Todo eso que tanto nos gusta / Pedro Zarraluki • Un día perfecto / Melania G.MazzuccoLa • La lámpara de Aladino / Luis Sepúlveda • Una noche sin luna / Dai Sijie • El violonchelista de Sarajevo / Steven Galloway • El club de la calceta / María Reimóndez • Madre mía, que estás en los infiernos / Carmen Jiménez El canalla sentimental / Jaime Bayly Provocador, perezoso, romántico, autodestructivo, contradictorio, infiel, vanidoso, frívolo, coqueto, seductor y un auténtico canalla. Así es Jaime Bayly, un escritor y presentador de televisión en la cuarentena que tiene su vida organizada en un tenso equilibrio. • El regreso del soldado / Rebecca West Entre mujeres solas / Cesare Pavese Clelia, una mujer madura, fría y bregada deja Roma y llega de vuelta a Turín, su ciudad natal, para abrir una tienda de modas. Su negocio la obliga a frecuentar la alta burguesía de la ciudad y a asistir como testigo a los viajes extravagantes, a los amores cansados y a los intentos de suicidio de unos jóvenes que ya no saben qué pedir a la vida. • Abril / Carlos Eugenio López • Citas en Manhattan / Emma Reveter • La fiesta en la habitación de al lado París, 1968-1969 / Mariasun Landa • La hija del sepulturero / Joyce Carol Oates • Pornoromántica / Carolina Cutolo • Amanecer / Stephenie Meyer • Santuario / Raymond Khoury 5 El último patriarca / Najat El Hachmi A través de los ojos de la hija de Mimoun conoceremos la historia de la familia Driouch. Desde sus orígenes, en algún lugar de Marruecos donde el orden patriarcal somete a la mujer a la voluntad masculina, hasta la actualidad, en algún lugar de la Península y en convivencia con las costumbres occidentales. • Cuestión de locura / Ismaíl Kadaré • La gárgola / Andrew Davidson • La voluntad y la fortuna / Carlos Fuentes • Cuándo alargar el paso / Andoni Egaña • Avión de ricos, ladrón de cerdos / Juan Tomás Avila Laurel • El señor Pip / Lloyd Jones • Resaca: Hank Over. Un homenaje a Charles Bukowski • La única margen del río / Oscar Calavia Aunque seamos malditas / Eugenia Rico Hay acusaciones que nos marcan para siempre. Ainur intenta cambiar su destino después de ganar un juicio por mobbing. Puede que sea inocente, pero tiene que huir para salvarse. Encuentra refugio físico en un pueblo arrimado a un precipicio, donde habitan seres tullidos con una nueva visión del mundo. Su mente se refugia en una comadrona quemada por bruja en el siglo XVI y tenida por santa. • Ya sólo habla de amor / RAI Loriga • Herzog / Saul Bellow • El exiliado de aquí y allá: la vida póstuma del Monstruo del Sentier / Juan Goytisolo • La señal / Ángel Gutiérrez, David Zurdo. • El décimo don / Jane Johnson La escritura en la pared / Tim LaHaye y Bob Phillips Michael Murphy, un brillante profesor universitario especializado en profecías bíblicas, ayudado por un misterioso aliado que se hace llamar Matusalén, se verá inmerso en la búsqueda de una de las profecías más famosas y desconcertantes jamás escritas en la Biblia: la Escritura en la Pared. Para ello tendrá que viajar hasta Babilonia, pero en el transcurso de sus investigaciones, y cuando más cerca se encuentra de descifrar el significado del antiguo mensaje que nos legó el profeta Daniel, Murphy descubrirá un complot a escala mundial. • Los mares de Wang / Gabi Martínez 6 EZ FIKZIOA - No ficción • Lo que sabe la gente feliz : tomar las riendas del propio destino y vivir una vida plena y satisfactoria / Dan Baker y Cameron Stauth • Goi-mailako sukaldaritzak sukaldaritza zaporetsua hil zuenekoa / Fernando Canales-en saioa La guerra fría / John Lewis Gaddis En 1950, cuando Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh y Kim Il-sung se reunieron en Moscú para hablar sobre el futuro, tenían buenas razones para sentirse optimistas. 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